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On 14th May, 2024, the Sengwer Council of Elders released a press statement calling on the Kenyan government and foreign don

Following oral evidence sessions, Forest Peoples Programme submitted additional written evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee ahead of publication of its report and recommendations. 

UNCERD highlights concerns that concessions awarded to palm oil company CamVert are leading to dispossession and forced displacement of traditionally-owned Indigenous lands.

The Kichwa people of San Martin, through three of their local federations, the Ethnic Council of the Kichwa Peoples of the Amazon (CEPKA), the Federation of Indigenous Kichwa Peoples of Chazuta Amaz

Pronunciamiento Kichwa: SERNANP niega una vez más los derechos territoriales kichwa en el Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul 

On 20 September 2023, the oral report was presented in the writ of amparo proceedings before the Fourth Constitutional Court of Lima, over the failure of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI), the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), a

AIDESEP Y CODEPISAM PARTICIPAN EN AUDIENCIA DE PROCESO DE AMPARO QUE CUESTIONA POLÍTICA NACIONAL DE TITULACIÓN DE TERRITORIOS DE PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS

This article was originally published in Spanish

This article explores how global initiatives for forest conservation collide with the human rights of local populations.

Este artículo explora la forma cómo las iniciativas mundiales para la conservación de bosques colisionan con los derechos humanos de las poblaciones locales.

  7th June 2023 ICCS Group, Department of Biology, University of Oxford

The Ogiek of Chepkitale, Mount Elgon, Kenya, protect and care for their community lands over the long term. 

Palm oil route and conflicts, that everyday ingredient that comes from a depredated territory The crude palm oil produced by the Ocho Sur group originates in an area of the Peruvian Amazon devastated more than 10 years ago, which the Santa Clara de U

Ruta y conflictos del aceite de palma, ese ingrediente cotidiano que nace de un territorio depredado El aceite crudo de palma elaborado por el grupo Ocho Sur tiene su origen en un área de la Amazonía

Private sector investments promoting the sale of forest carbon credits in the Colombian Amazon accused of disrespecting the right to prior consultation and FPIC of Indigenous Peoples A growing number of press articles published by the Latin American Center for Journalistic

Inversiones del sector privado en la Amazonía colombiana promoviendo la venta de bonos de carbono forestal acusadas de irrespetar el derecho a la consulta previa de los Pueblos Indígenas Un número creciente de artículos de prensa publi

This side event, to be held at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) 22nd session in New York, discusses how to ensure the full and equitable particip

Leading Amazonian Indigenous Peoples organisations AIDESEP, ORAU, FECONAU, together with the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, issued the following open letter in response to public remarks made on social media by the United States of America Ambassador to Peru, Lisa Kenna, following her visit to oil palm plantations operated by the Ocho Sur group on 29 March 2023.

A public hearing was held for the writ of amparo lawsuit filed by the Puerto Franco Kichwa community, who sued the Peruvian State and the Cordillera Azul National Park (PNCAZ) for failing to title their traditional lands, the imposition of an exclusionary conservation model and the generation of profits from the sale of car

Se realizó audiencia pública por la demanda de amparo realizada por la comunidad kichwa Puerto Franco, quien demandó al Estado peruano y al Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul (PNCAZ) por la omisión de la titulación de sus tierras tradicionales, la imposició